Torlesse Tussocklands Park
Torlesse is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur David Torlesse (1902–1995), Royal Navy officer * Charles Torlesse (1825–1866), New Zealand surveyor * Elizabeth Torlesse Elizabeth Henrietta Torlesse (1835 – 22 September 1922) was a notable New Zealand homemaker and community leader. She was born in County Wicklow, Ireland in about 1835 as Elizabeth Henrietta Revell. The Revell family came to New Zealand on th ...

Arthur David Torlesse
Rear Admiral Arthur David Torlesse, (24 January 1902 – 19 July 1995) was a Royal Navy officer. He commanded the escort carrier during the latter part of the Second World War, and the aircraft carrier during the early months of the Korean War. In 1952, he commanded the task force that supported Operation Hurricane, the first British nuclear weapons test. Early life and career Arthur David Torlesse was born in Bognor Regis in West Sussex on 24 January 1902, the son of a Royal Navy officer, Captain Arthur Ward Torlesse, and his wife Harriet Mary (née Jeans). He had a brother, Ynyr John Torlesse. He was educated at Park High School, Stanmore, Royal Naval College, Osborne, which he entered in 1915, and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He served as a midshipman with the Grand Fleet during the First World War. Torlesse was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 15 May 1922, and served on . He was promoted to lieutenant on 15 June 1923. He joined the crew of the aircraft carrier ...
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Charles Torlesse
Charles Obins Torlesse (2 May 1825 – 14 November 1866) was a prominent surveyor for the Canterbury Association in Canterbury, New Zealand. Biography Torlesse was born in Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England, in 1825. He was the eldest son of the Rev Charles Martin Torlesse, who was on the management committee of the Canterbury Association. His mother Catherine Torlesse was the sister of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Aged 16, Torlesse started a survey cadetship under his uncle Arthur Wakefield for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. He stayed in Nelson from 1841 and returned to England in 1843, after his uncle was killed in the Wairau Affray. Torlesse together with fellow surveyor Thomas Cass returned to New Zealand by the ''Bernica'', and arrived in December 1848, to work under chief surveyor, Captain Joseph Thomas. Torlesse took up land in Rangiora where he built the area's first house. On 27 December 1851, Torlesse married Alicia Townsend in Christchurch. She was the third d ...
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